Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

æ
þ

ymb-gyrdan

  • verb [ weak ]
Dictionary links
Grammar
ymb-gyrdan, p. de.
of clothing,
to gird about,
to put a girdle round
Show examples

  • Ic embgyrde cingo and accingo and

    succingo,

      Ælfc. Gr. 28, 5 ; Zup. 173, 17.

  • Hé ymbgyrde hine

    praecinxit se,

      Jn. Skt. Lind. Rush. 13, 4.
  • Ymbgyrdaþ eówre lendena, Anglia viii. 322, 19.

  • Ymbgyrde wé úre lendena,

      323, 27.

  • Ymbgyrded

    amictus.

      Mk. Skt. Lind. Rush. 14, 51.

  • Ymbgyrd

    circumamicta,

      Ps. Spl. T. 44, 15.

  • His lendena wǽron ymbgirde,

      L. Ælfc. P. 17 ; Th. ii. 370, 12.
  • 'Beón eówre lendena ymbgyrde.' On ðám ymbgyrdum lendenum is se mægðhád tó understandenne. Homl. Th. ii. 564, 25.
to serve as a girdle
Show examples

  • Ymbgyrde hine gyrdilse sóðfæstnises

    circumcinxit eam zona justitiae,

      Rtl. 79, 5.
to surround, encompass, enclose
Show examples

  • Ymbgyrdeþ

    ambit,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 9, 61.

  • Mid ðyssum gemǽrum hi synd útan ymbgyrde,

      Cod. Dip. Kmbl. iii. 396, 3.
Similar entries
v. embe-gyrdan.
Linked entries
v.  embe-gyrdan.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “ymb-gyrdan.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/37139.

Checked: 0
Full form

Word-wheel

  • ymb-gyrdan, v.

Copyright

All the data provided here are free for any purpose. If you use the data for academic purposes, we ask that you kindly cite us as your source. In case you need a large portion of the dictionary data or you need it in a specific format, let us know through the contact form, we are happy to do custom database dumps for researchers.

How to cite

You can cite the entries of the online version of the dictionary, or you can cite the scanned pages of the original paper editions.

  • To cite the online version of the dictionary, click the icon right under the entry.
  • To cite the scanned paper version of the dictionary, click the "show/hide this scanned page" link under the entry, check the scan and use the citation information right above it.